---
title: 'Across the Desert (1936)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla'
released: '1936-02-20'
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/across-the-desert-1936'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202859/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Across the Desert (1936)

1936 · Adventure · Germany

Original title: Durch die Wüste

## Synopsis

Across the Desert is a 1936 German adventure film directed by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla and starring Fred Raupach, Heinz Evelt and Aruth Wartan. It was based on a novel by Karl May. It was the first sound adaptation of a May novel, and the only one to be produced during the Nazi era. Set in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century, it portrays a series of oriental adventures of travellers Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef Omar.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla](https://cinepixo.com/people/johann-alexander-hubler-kahla)
- **Screenplay:** [Carl Junghans](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-junghans)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Gottfried Huppertz](https://cinepixo.com/people/gottfried-huppertz)
- **Producer:** [Lothar Stark](https://cinepixo.com/people/lothar-stark)
- **Director of Photography:** [Paul Rischke](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-rischke), [Georg Muschner](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-muschner)

## Cast

- [Franz Klebusch](https://cinepixo.com/people/franz-klebusch)
- [Erich Haußmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-hau-mann)
- [Aruth Wartan](https://cinepixo.com/people/aruth-wartan)
- [Herbert Gernot](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-gernot)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/across-the-desert-1936
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